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The first part of this paper studies the evolution of gradient flow for homogeneous neural networks near a class of saddle points exhibiting a sparsity structure. The choice of these saddle points is motivated from previous works on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Akshay Kumar , Jarvis Haupt

Pruning large neural networks while maintaining their performance is often desirable due to the reduced space and time complexity. In existing methods, pruning is done within an iterative optimization procedure with either heuristically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Namhoon Lee , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Philip H. S. Torr

Tensor networks are a very powerful data structure tool originating from quantum system simulations. In recent years, they have seen increased use in machine learning, mostly in trainings with gradient-based techniques, due to their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Sergi Masot-Llima , Artur Garcia-Saez

Overparameterized Neural Networks (NN) display state-of-the-art performance. However, there is a growing need for smaller, energy-efficient, neural networks tobe able to use machine learning applications on devices with limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-21 Soufiane Hayou , Jean-Francois Ton , Arnaud Doucet , Yee Whye Teh

The increasing computational requirements of deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to significant interest in obtaining DNN models that are sparse, yet accurate. Recent work has investigated the even harder case of sparse training, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Alexandra Peste , Eugenia Iofinova , Adrian Vladu , Dan Alistarh

To accelerate deep CNN models, this paper proposes a novel spatially adaptive framework that can dynamically generate pixel-wise sparsity according to the input image. The sparse scheme is pixel-wise refined, regional adaptive under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Chen Tang , Wenyu Sun , Zhuqing Yuan , Yongpan Liu

Network pruning focuses on algorithms that aim to reduce a given model's computational cost by removing a subset of its parameters while having minimal impact on performance. Throughout the last decade, the most widely used pruning paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Elia Cunegatti , Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

Current deep-learning models for object recognition are known to be heavily biased toward texture. In contrast, human visual systems are known to be biased toward shape and structure. What could be the design principles in human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tianqin Li , Ziqi Wen , Yangfan Li , Tai Sing Lee

Pruning is a compression method which aims to improve the efficiency of neural networks by reducing their number of parameters while maintaining a good performance, thus enhancing the performance-to-cost ratio in nontrivial ways. Of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hugo Tessier , Ghouti Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon

Deep neural networks are state-of-the-art models for understanding the content of images, video and raw input data. However, implementing a deep neural network in embedded systems is a challenging task, because a typical deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Xichuan Zhou , Shengli Li , Kai Qin , Kunping Li , Fang Tang , Shengdong Hu , Shujun Liu , Zhi Lin

Recently deep neural networks have received considerable attention due to their ability to extract and represent high-level abstractions in data sets. Deep neural networks such as fully-connected and convolutional neural networks have shown…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Arash Ardakani , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

This paper addresses the problem of learning a sparse structure Bayesian network from high-dimensional discrete data. Compared to continuous Bayesian networks, learning a discrete Bayesian network is a challenging problem due to the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Nazanin Shajoonnezhad , Amin Nikanjam

As neural network model sizes have dramatically increased, so has the interest in various techniques to reduce their parameter counts and accelerate their execution. An active area of research in this field is sparsity - encouraging zero…

Neural networks are easier to optimise when they have many more weights than are required for modelling the mapping from inputs to outputs. This suggests a two-stage learning procedure that first learns a large net and then prunes away…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Aidan N. Gomez , Ivan Zhang , Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara , Divyam Madaan , Kevin Swersky , Yarin Gal , Geoffrey E. Hinton

Although sparse training has been successfully used in various resource-limited deep learning tasks to save memory, accelerate training, and reduce inference time, the reliability of the produced sparse models remains unexplored. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Bowen Lei , Ruqi Zhang , Dongkuan Xu , Bani Mallick

Structured pruning is one of the most popular approaches to effectively compress the heavy deep neural networks (DNNs) into compact sub-networks while retaining performance. The existing methods suffer from multi-stage procedures along with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Chen , Xiaoyi Qu , David Aponte , Colby Banbury , Jongwoo Ko , Tianyu Ding , Yong Ma , Vladimir Lyapunov , Ilya Zharkov , Luming Liang

Federated Learning (FL) has attracted much interest due to the significant advantages it brings to training deep neural network (DNN) models. However, since communications and computation resources are limited, training DNN models in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ran Greidi , Kobi Cohen

Sparse deep learning has become a popular technique for improving the performance of deep neural networks in areas such as uncertainty quantification, variable selection, and large-scale network compression. However, most existing research…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-06 Mingxuan Zhang , Yan Sun , Faming Liang

This article proposes a sparse computation-based method for optimizing neural networks for reinforcement learning (RL) tasks. This method combines two ideas: neural network pruning and taking into account input data correlations; it makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Dmitry Ivanov , Mikhail Kiselev , Denis Larionov

Sparse deep neural networks have proven to be efficient for predictive model building in large-scale studies. Although several works have studied theoretical and numerical properties of sparse neural architectures, they have primarily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-18 Sanket Jantre , Shrijita Bhattacharya , Tapabrata Maiti